Ending Chechnya’s counterterrorism operation - or not
By Tanya Lokshina, published on open Democracy News Analysis (http://www.opendemocracy.net) on April 27, 2009
By Tanya Lokshina, published on open Democracy News Analysis (http://www.opendemocracy.net) on April 27, 2009
President Obama visited the CIA headquarters this week to try to reassure staff that their intelligence-gathering work would not be compromised by the release of the so-called ‘torture’ memos. But the revelations cast a shadow over the work of the US inte
Human Rights Watch has gathered disturbing testimony that Hamas is responsible for brutal sectarian attacks in Gaza
Fifteen years ago, efforts at genocide killed about 800,000 Rwandans. Now that tragedy is providing the government with a cover for repression.
The global economic crisis is worsening human rights abuses – while distracting world leaders from addressing them